Deepak
Chopra was recently interviewed by Katie Couric on the
Today Show. In all their wisdom, the producers chose not
to air the segment in favor of a piece on the marry a
millionaire scandal.

Deepak posted this on his website and is asking for your
support to get the segement aired.

Read on...

Dear Friend,

I want to share with you a very interesting episode that
has been unfolding over the past few days. It provides us
a clue on how to use the seven biological responses
explored in my new book, How To Know God. I had been
scheduled to promote the book on the NBC Today Show for
the past six months. I took a plane early this week from
California to New York City, but my live appearance was
bumped by the story of the man who had failed to reveal a
restraining order before appearing on the show, Who wants
to marry a millionaire? Consequently, I taped the show to
be aired the next day. The interview went very well with
Katie Couric, but later that evening the producer decided
the interview was "too cerebral, too advanced,"
and unsuitable for their audience.

I spoke directly to one of the producers and asked her if
she felt their audience was not bright enough to
understand the material in the book and she responded,
"maybe so." Although I suggested that they were
underestimating the intelligence of their audience, they
continue to maintain their position to not air the
interview. This circumstance provided me with a great
opportunity to explore the seven biological responses.
I'd like to share with you my experience as an example of
how we can deal with life's inevitable challenges.

My first response was obviously the fight/flight
response.
I was irritable and wanted to argue and confront them. I
held them responsible for this upset and was angry with
them for not fulfilling their obligation. I quickly moved
into a reactive response with my ego wanting to assert
control and seeking to demonstrate how they were wrong
and I was right. I stayed in the reactive response all
evening, even encouraging my audiences to call the Today
Show and request that the interview be aired.

The next morning I woke up, went into meditation and
experienced the restful awareness response. I was able to
step out of my conditioned patterns and see the world
with new eyes. In this state of centered awareness, I was
able to move into the intuitive response and ask myself,
what was the deeper significance of this episode? The
answer was immediate and obvious: the mainstream media is
stuck in an old paradigm while the world is moving into a
new one. I asked, how can we create something that has
never been done before by eliciting the creative
response? It became obvious that our new company,
MyPotential is being formed to develop a multi-media
approach that will nurture people in an evolutionary
matter that acknowledges and supports their relationship
with the larger web of life.

The visionary response then actualized as a result of the
question: if we created such a company what would happen?
It became obvious to me that if we could reach critical
mass with a nurturing and evolutionary message, the world
would never be the same. We could heal the wounds of our
planet as expressed by the current media, which gives
prime attention to a man accused of battering his former
girlfriend just because he is a millionaire. We clearly
need to raise the consciousness of our planet and use
this episode as an opportunity to inspire us to a higher
vision.

Finally, I had a taste of the sacred response through the
experience of reverence and gratitude for a God that
makes things happen just as they are supposed to and for
providing me the opportunity to witness how my reality
changes in different states of awareness. I felt love and
appreciation for everyone engaged in this little drama.

This has been my experience and I am writing this letter
as a learning exercise. I invite everyone who is reading
this letter to join this conversation. Identify an
incident in your life that is challenging you right now
and see if you can look at it from these seven responses.
If you have any experiences you would like to share, you
can do so at our howtoknowgod.com message board. A simple
way to identify which response is predominant at any time
is to ask yourself the following questions:

1st response: Am I running or fighting?
2nd response: Am I offended?
3rd response: Am I centered?
4th response: What is the deeper significance of this
situation?
5th response: What can I create that never existed
before?
6th response: How does this affect my relationship with
the larger web of life and transform me and all those
affected by my choices?
In such a situation what would Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed,
Laotsu, Moses, or any other great heroic or archetypal
figure that you admire do?
7th response: Does experience bring me a sense of awe,
reverence for the sacred, connection with divine
intelligence and love for all sentient beings?

If you would still like to view my interview on the Today
Show, feel free to call NBC @ (212) 664-4249 or email
them @ [email protected], politely requesting them to air the
interview and suggesting that there are many intelligent
people who understand and appreciate topics of
importance.

Finally, together we can use our daily challenges to
begin a profound transformation in our lives and the
lives of everyone that we love.

Slowly,
slowly, by performing Ganga Sadhana you will blend your
external consciousness with our most perfect universal
consciousness. While sitting by the river, close enough
to touch the water, on a rock or tree limb, you are truly
uninvolved with everything but yourself. You are now in
tune with nature itself. Earth is there. Water is there.
Fire is there. Air is there. Akasha is there. All the
five elements are there. They are outside of you to see
and feel, as well as inside of you to see and feel. The
goal is to release that part of your subconscious mind
that doesn't blend the within of you with that which is
outside of you. You perform this blending by listening to
the river murmur, "Aum Namah Shivaya, Shivaya Namah
Aum," the sounds of Shiva's perfect universe.

Now the challenge. This will not be an easy task. The
quiet of the noise of nature will release thought after
thought from your subconscious mind. So, when each new
thought arises--a mental argument or something which has
not been settled in your past, an appointment missed or
an image of a loved one--gather up the pranic energy of
the thought and put its vibrations into a leaf. To do
this, hold the leaf in your right hand and project your
prana into it along with thought. Then take the leaf into
your two hands and release it with the thought patterns
into the river. Let the river take them away, while
listening to "Aum Namah Shivaya, Shivaya Namah
Aum" of the river as it does. Each time this
happens, thank the river by humbly offering into it a
flower. To show appreciation is a quality of the soul,
something not to be ignored, and, therefore, a vital part
of this sadhana.

Sadhana is performing the same discipline over and over
and over again. Just as we methodically exercise the
physical body to build up its muscles, we perform
spiritual disciplines over and over again to strengthen
our spiritual, inner bodies. Perform Ganga Sadhana time
and time again. You will rapidly advance. Remember, the
outer river is symbolically representing the inner river
of your own nerve system, life force and consciousness
that flows through you night and day. So, even as you sit
on this rock and look upon the water, in a mystical way,
see it as your own superconscious energies taking away
these problems, worries, doubts, ill-conceived and
unresolved experiences of the past. Flow with the river
of life and merge in Shiva's ocean of oneness.

~~Yep,
Kundalini rises in 3 nadis (subtle threads) up the spine
area (not the actual spine - well, i know you know that,
but just in case) Bigee in the middle, two less bigee's
on either side (Sushumna, Ida and Pigala).

But, these are not the only nadis K "uses" -
there are over 70,000 nadis throughout the body through
which K has a jolly good time cleaning out ego gook (and
of course, chakras have biggest piles.).

That is why each person's K experiences are different,
because the flavor of the experience depends on what
personal gook is being cleaned out. One may have visions,
one may jump like a frog - this is not surprising however
when one is small and green, one may see lights, one may
feel depressed, and so on. These are just manifestations
of the blockages in the nadis (and chakras) that dear K
is working on.

~~K also "descends" - teachers and K
experiencers have described the rising (from the base of
spine) "and" the descending (from crown area)
of K. "Descending as a shower" is a common
expression.

K will go up and fool around with lover (Shiva) but not
"do" it many times (then she goes back down and
rises again - the tease!) "Having drunk, having
drunk, having again drunk," (Tantra), or she will
whisper sweet nothings "I'm comin' darlin'" and
this foreplay touches the pleasure buttons in our brains.
We have an "experience" of insight, bliss, a
glimpse of non-duality, and we think "Wow! i am
realized!!
Better run and post on the NDS list."

But these "enightenments" will happen often
before the big O, best to not take them so seriously,
putting ego labels on them and all - maybe just sit back
and enjoy. Besides, K not too happy with kinky
threesomes, and has to go work then on getting rid of
"I am realized" blockage in Nadi #53,467 -
takes more time then 'til Precious Union.

"I was swept up to Thee by Thy beauty, and torn away
from Thee by my own weight." St. Augustine

~~Don't think there could be more than one "life
force," eh? K, chi, whatever, perhaps they are all
the same energy, just different traditions naming them
and working with them. Perhaps there is life force and it
is called chi or it is called K or it is called Great
Kangaroo - this is not surprising when one is large and
brown, but when it is "awakened" to an
intensity that begins to clean out all the chakras/nadis
(beyond our control), than it is more commonly called K
as in a Kundalini Awakening. However, some traditions
"do" mention the Great Kangaroo awakening -
there you go.

K has been described (Avalon's Serpent Power) as having
two forms of energy at the same time: static (coiled
potential energy at the base of spine), and dynamic
(providing life's forces.) The energy expended in the
life's forces does not take away energy from the coiled
serpent - H.H. the Great Pair o' Docs.

"The whole is subtracted from the whole and yet the
whole remains." (Upanishad).

When she's awakened, K as the life force is still doing
her thing (albeit diminished proportionally as the
lovemaking gets heated up), but the driving force is to
unite with Her Lover above the crown (at that point life
force is diminished so much body becomes very cold,
corpse-like.).

"With his gentle hand he wounded my neck, And caused
all my senses to be suspended."

~~When a being has their K running around very strongly
or she's already up there smoking a cigarette, you touch
their hand or even just get near them, or touch something
they have touched, or look into their eyes, or see their
picture, or even read their words on the net! (yep,
happens a lot) your own K is aroused (In some people gets
aroused very easily - horny little dickens.)

"I was as if the fire in the tree burned the tree as
if the sweet smells of the winds of space took over the
nostrils as if the doll of wax went up in flames. I saw
Her Eyes and lost the world." Prabhu

~~Even though we may feel like it is coming from
"outside," the only K we "feel" is
inside us. Course it doesn't belong to us - formless,
changeless, no boundaries/limitations, but you know all
that stuff.

"The Spirit is playing, The Spirit is longing, The
Spirit with fancy creating all, Surrenders himself to the
bliss of love..Amid the flowers of His creation, He
lingers in a kiss.. Blinded by their beauty, He rushes,
He frolics, He dances, He whirls, He is all rapture, all
bliss, in this play Free, Divine, in this love
struggle."
Skryabin

Well, that's all - just some notes about K from garbage
pile (maybe right, maybe wrong, maybe up, maybe down,
maybe only H.H. the Great Jumper knows for sure) to do
with what thou wilt.

love you all, oh

"I remained, lost in oblivion; My face I reclined on
the Beloved. All ceased and I abandoned myself, Leaving
my cares forgotten among the lilies." St.John

March 5Arisings as
an Interplay of Idea-stuff
Greg Goode, Ph.D., with Manchine

Greg: So -- sensory
modalities, biology, physics, thoughts, information,
external objects, all that stuff. We do science with it.
But how can any of it be any more or less real than any
of the rest?

Manchine: It's all real,
although within a limited perception, and I can't stress
the vital importance of that simple statement. If you see
that the physical is false, you are perhaps loosing the
most important clue as to what it is there for, as to why
we are. So what is spiritual quest? The search of
tranquility by ignoring? Don't think so.

Greg: You make a good
point - there are perceptions that take all this stuff as
real. And it can be the ultimate cop-out, putting one's
head in the sand, to blithely say none of it's real.
Often this is accompanied by self-indulgent or hurtful
behavior. I'm sorry if I gave you this kind of
impression, I don't want to. This was a kind of
metaphysical topic with Roger, not everyday talk. I was
using the "real/unreal" distinction the way
they do in advaita vedanta - real is said to be permanent
and independent; unreal is said to be transitory and
dependent on something else. The purpose of our being
here? How's this -- to find the Self, which is Love, and
then to celebrate and love each other and all things as
instances of that Self.

"The physical as
false?" Funny you should mention that. I'll tell you
a story about something that happened to me. In my case,
the beliefs and experiences related to the physical realm
fell away about 18 years ago, long before I knew anything
about spiritual or mystical life. In the early 80's, I
took a graduate seminar in George Berkeley. He's the guy
who argued persuasively against the external, independent
existence of physical objects. The popular tagline about
Berkeley is this -- he's the guy who said that if a tree
in the forest falls and there's no one to hear it, it
doesn't make a sound. Our professor was a world-class
Berkeley scholar and not a fair grader -- to get a good
grade in the seminar, we had to write papers only in
favor of Berkeley!! And his arguments were not what I'd
call intuitive (though he is one of the most engaging
philosophical stylists in the English language).

So we read and read and
read. Long story short, there was a transformational
point where physical objects lost once and for all their
sense of externality and reality and heaviness and
solidity. Including my own body. In 18 years or so,
objects have never regained these qualities for me.
Objects seemed and felt like they were made fully and
completely of idea-stuff, appearances to mind, and not
separate from me. (Back then I thought I *was* the mind.)
I would ride a bike or learn to rollerblade in the city,
lift weights, do bodybuilding. Yes I would avoid cars and
trucks, and set the barbells down carefully. But there
was no real separation between my body and other objects.
Physical actions now had the feeling of lightness and
clarity and insubstantiality of ideas. This includes
physical pain, illness, injury, all of which stopped
feeling like they were happening to me or my body, but
rather just arising as an interplay of idea-stuff.

Now non-dualism has some
*intellectual* teachings on this, but no way for it to
work into experience unless a large enough "Shift
Happens." A few years ago I was delighted and
intrigued to encounter a Kashmir Shaivist form of yoga
which cultivates the same kind of experience of the
world.

Here I sit in the
wastelands of Portland feeling like a lone little
non-dualist. Thinking about going to the Living
Enrichment Center 11 am services. Thinking about not
going to the services.

They talk about god
there. The basic premise is that all 6 billion people on
the planet are just manifestations of god. The vibration
however, is separate. God is other, still, somehow. I
sense this basic feeling of separateness in the good
people worshipping there. As most of them come from the
various christian sects - this makes sense.

As for me - HAHAHAH H
and HOHOHO! I no longer believe in god. Jesus is/was not
a saviour/messiah and buddha is/was not a lord. There is
no thing that is divine or holy. There is no thing that
is evil or corrupt. All is one. ALL IS BEAUTY.

I am starting to realize
that what we call god is merely a manifestation of mind.
Samhadi is an emotional state brought on by meditation,
happenstance, drugs, fasting or luck :-)- nothing more.
Oh yes I experience the bliss. Somehow it does not seem
like an end, more it seems like a means to something
else.

Me at the age of 15
staying up all night asking the universe (called it god
then) why, Why, WHY! Why does anything exist at all? The
answer was music and bliss flowing through me! :-)
Driving along and hearing a voice telling me to 'be out
of your body now' and exiting out of the top of my head,
growing to about 50 feet tall. Realizing that I was not
behind the wheel Reaching down to guide the car around
the corner like it was a toy. Hearing the voice say, 'not
bad, ok you can go back into your body now.'

Me as a youngster of 20
something. Having dreams and visions - questing after the
answer. Going to India to see the guru maharaji - self
proclaimed lord of the universe - now just another
'divine' con artist.

Ah India! Powers
manifesting in me. Miracles abounding. More on this
another time! HAHAHAH H and HOHOHOHO!

Me as a 50 something.
Last year - mother dying - dead in April. Joining a chi
kung study group with my best friend in May/June. Leaving
that mini-cult in December! [-) Losing my friendship.
Gaining my senses back.

Awakening! Like a chick
out of its shell. Like a tadpole dreaming. Like a
caterpillar eating. What is next?

So. Does anybody know of
any non-dualist realizer satsangers here in the greater
Portland, OR area? I sure could use some company! :-)

HAHAHAH HAH and
HOHOHOHO!

Peace - Michael
********************************* neo responded: I no
longer believe in god. As a quote from "City of
Angels": "Some things are true if you believe
in them or not." All Love, neo

*********************************
I responded to neo!

What is it then, neo?
Allah Allah Akbhar? Yahweh? Krsna? Jesu Christu? We have
to leave buddhism out. That path is the great athiestic
realization of oneness! Gautama replied that there is no
soul, no atman.

To imply a soul is to
imply separation. ;-)

But is buddhism the
answer? I dearly love the image of the laughing buddha!

Perhaps god is like that
capricious character on 'Star Trek'. You know the one -
Q! Entire realities altered/created/destroyed with but
the snap of a finger!

Perhaps god is like
stodgy old YHWH. Stumping around mountain tops carving
the law on stone, burning bushes and riding about on
pillars of fire. All the while dreaming up contracts for
the chosen.

Perhaps god is like
Krishna. Our best friend who urges us onward. Live life
with gusto, honor and determination. Fight the good fight
and let Me sort out the rest.

Perhaps god is the
standing wave that all of creation rests upon. That would
be rather like the great turtle of some native American
cultures.

No, neo, I no longer
believe in god. To believe in god I have to see myself as
separate from god. There is no god because god is
everywhere. This is so beyond my understanding that I
understand it completely! lazy 8 (where is that pesky
infinity sign?)

What was that voice that
directed me out of my body? What was that power that
moved the car? What is that who dares to say I AM THAT?

March 7Compressed Information of
Wound, Informs, Guides and Shapes Our World
by Gene Poole, with Marcia Paul and Xan

Gene: There is a way to
understand what is going on with this question that you
are dealing with, to wit: Thought, content, thought-form,
core wound, and what is 'really going on' on a level of
phenomenology. See below:

Marcia: Perhaps a
thought form. The habitual form our thoughts take. In
other words the form behind the content. The content
continually comes through forms specific to each of us
and laid down before language.

Xan: Can you show me
this form our thoughts take with no content?

Marcia: I may be just
connecting things that don't connect but I was thinking
about the core wound and how it might mold our thoughts.
No matter what was coming in or going out would be molded
by these forms. In the Gurdjieff work it is called chief
feature. The central axis around which our personality
rotates. Like is sieve with holes structured a certain
way.

Xan: Yes, the ongoing
impact of core wound/chief feature. I've also heard it
called the core belief and the personal law. Does that
exist without thought?

Marcia: I am not saying
I think this is true but that might be an example of a
thought form. That belief behind individual thoughts
gives shape to the resulting thought.

Xan: Is there belief
without thought?

Marcia: This is how I
look at it. Thought is structured by words or has it's
basis in language. At least ordinary or one-centered
thought. Our beliefs we got before language and they form
our thoughts. Or are the forms through which the energy
of our existence take form in thoughts. Our beliefs are
unexamined. Thoughts we introspect all the time.

In myself, for example,
I might have all sorts of thoughts about how someone
doesn't like me or even the dog may not like me for some
reason. Behind that is the sense that if I do not
approach someone in the right way then he/she will not
like me. But behind that is a belief that somehow I am
worthless and that I have to earn love. So I spend my
life taking care of everyone never examining the
motivating belief that shapes all my thoughts that I am
somehow worthless and unworthy of being loved.

Now don't get me wrong.
Taking care of people and nurturing is great if the focus
is not on me, me, me trying to fill this "worthless
hole" in my psyche. My greatest weakness is also my
greatest strength and the behavior may not externally
change much at all.

Xan: So you are saying,
Marcia, that belief is thought at an unconscious level of
mind?

Unconscious as well as
conscious mind functions as sounds and words, images and
body sensations. Even as pre-verbal memory, a sense of
worthlessness is an evaluation, an interpretation, an
identity. These are thoughts, are they not?

Gene: I have discovered
that the information which remains with us, as the result
of wounding (most especially when we are children) is
indeed in the forms that Xan and Marcia point out;
sounds, words, images, and body sensations. However (and
this is a big however!), this residual information of
wound, is stored in a _compressed format_.

Non-wound information is
stored in uncompressed format; we have the ability to
easily access and endlessly ruminate this non-compressed
information. Most of what is shared here, is in
non-compressed format.

It is useful to know
something about data-compression; the easiest examples to
know, are the common data-compression formats used to
convert large files into smaller files, for transmission
over electronic networks, like the internet.

Filenames which have the
suffix of [.zip, .tar] for PCs, or [.sit, .bin, .hqx] for
Mac, indicate that such files are compressed; they have
been rendered into smaller size by the rearranging of
certain bits of data. Such files can be
uploaded/downloaded much faster than their uncompressed
versions. Each file must be uncompressed before it can be
used; but sometimes, such files are made simply for the
reason that they take up less disk space than their
uncompressed versions.

The chief characteristic
of these stuffed archives of wound-data, is that
*although* they are available for our access, they 'play
back' at such a tremendous speed, that they are literally
incomprehensible to the conscious mind. As they play back
in us (usually experienced as an undesired event in
itself), the speed of the playback induces a physical
vertigo; this is often experienced as a 'veritable blow'
to oneself.

* "FLASHBACKS"
PLAGUE USERS OF DISINHIBITING DRUGS

Exposure to this
instant/incomprehensible information _again_ threatens
identity; shockingly instantaneous feelings of
_depersonalization_ occur, along with a cascade of
emotions and the concurrent physiological flooding of the
brain with the neurohormonal byproducts of psychological
association.

During high-speed
playback, compressed data-files deposit or inject certain
_subliminal_ cues; these cues prompt emotional reaction
of _desire_ and _aversion_. Although the specifics of the
information of wound are still unseen, the consequence of
triggering the instant yet incomprehensible playback of
this compressed data, may be experienced as _violence_.

The skilled
psychotherapist can actuate the 'algorithm of
decompression', to allow the real-time playback of the
information of wound. A human system which is capable of
compressing and archiving information, is also capable of
uncompressing that information. Uncompressed, the
information of wound is available for real-time
rumination.

* ORIGINAL
WOUND-INFORMATION "IN-FORMS" WAY OF BEING

Yet, it remains
unaccessible to the conscious mind. Searching the memory
for significant points of attachment may trigger
high-speed playback; the vertigo, the 'blow' to oneself,
and the concurrent feelings of aversion and desire, serve
as a punishing conditioning to keep us OUT of our own
information-archives.

Although the information
of wound is indeed composed of the same comprehensible
'thought-forms' as any other datum of thought, it is 'a
lot in a small space'; it is kept compressed and in
pressurized format. Consider that this entire post could
be reduced to the size of a single period (.), but also
that considerable energy would have to be continually
expended to keep it compressed.

* COMPRESSED 'ISSUES'
GOBBLE LIBIDO, DIMINISH IMMUNITY

The energy required to
keep information hidden from ourselves, is subtracted
form the pool of energy available for us. This effect is
noticed as fatigue and diminished immunity; the other
more obvious effect is that of being 'on-edge',
irritable, and defensive.

* WHAT IS REPRESSED, IS
PROJECTED

The unconscious activity
of repression (compressing unwanted data) creates
pressure which results in the spontaneous and automatic
phenomenon of _projection_. In this way, we surround
ourselves with a 'virtual reality field' of our own
making; it is composed of the very factors which we least
want to confront. Fear, resentment and blame are the most
common reactions to our own projections. It is very
common for a person to see themselves as perpetually
suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
while the entire time remaining unaware that they are
interacting with a reality of their own making.

* ALGORITHM OF
NONDUALITY, SELF-INQUIRY, DESIGNED TO MAKE ALL DATA
ACCESSIBLE

It is possible to
_learn_ to allow the uncompression of repressed
information of wound; it is possible to adopt the
practice of _abiding_ the storm of effects which occur
during this decompression process. It is possible to
learn to let go of the reactions of aversion and desire
which inevitably are triggered during either high-speed
or real-time playback of memory-contents; it is possible
to categorize every reaction as either aversion or
desire, and thus to become aware of _attachment_ as it
exists as a primary mechanism of the human Being.

'Attachment to outcome'
is what underlies every strategy; to let go of attachment
to outcome, allows the falling away of strategizing as a
way of Being. Releasing strategy sets us up to free-fall
into Self, with no 'escape route' or 'back door' retained
'just in case'. This _radical_ release of attachment is
without penalty, yet, it is the most difficult of all
acts to perform. To perform this act, requires practice
of abiding, carried out as a 'walking meditation' 24
hours per day, 7 days per week. It is when we finally
realize that our reality is our own, that we are able to
own our reality; it is at this point, that resentment,
blame, and revenge lose their powerful grip on our
selves.

* YOU ARE THE ONLY
REALITY; YOU CREATE THE APPARENT UNIVERSE

There is only SELF;
there is nothing to contrast with Self. Therefore, there
is nothing for Self to be 'like'; thus, Self is 'like
nothing'.

* IDENTITY IS ONLY A
VERSION OF SELF

All versions of self are
Self. Self has the power to forget about Self, and to
remember Self. Identity is a defacto hypostasis, a
crystalization of information, a hardness comprised of
compressed nuggets of wound-information. Reaction is to
projected contents of memory. All of what is known, is
what has been known. All of what is known, is not Self,
it is a version of Self known as identity. All of what
can be known, is Self, but Self masquerades as the
Unknown, and the future is the unknown; thus, we are
"all going to meet ourselves" as Self 'in the
future'. Anticipating this event, which is felt to to be
release from suffering, we are impatient and thus do not
abide. Nonabiding Beings do not abide Beings abiding...

Summary: Compressed
information of wound, informs, guides and shapes our
world; the violent flashback-effect of high-speed
playback of compressed data, calls for that data to be
uncompressed and experienced in real-time. Avoidance of
unwanted information is the primary strategy which
supports the continuance of identity. To abide, is to
slow the playback of compressed data, and to tolerate the
effects of our own attachments as they are activated as
either aversion or desire.

* ABIDING, EQUANIMITY
KEY FEATURES OF MATURITY, SUCCESS

Upon the dawning of the
realization that we create our own reality, the fight
comes to an end. Projections are withdrawn, and
resentment is no longer used as fuel for action. We
acquire a deep understanding of our own nature, and see
that compassion is the highest power; we appreciate that
we are designed in such a way as to punish ourselves for
nonabiding, and that the key to abiding is compassion for
oneself.

* EQUANIMITY EQUALS
EQUAL ANIMITY (MOVEMENT) IN ALL SITUATIONS

Life is momentum and
momentum is movement. As long as we live, we move. As
long as we live, we will either be reacting to our
unwanted/projected 'contents', or we will be in
understanding of our human nature, and abiding it in all
of its complexity and simplicity. Such abiding of
oneself, is compassion for oneself. Compassion can inform
the inevitable movement of life.

March 8 & 9Collapsing the Dualistic
Paradigm
by Bruce Morgen
(Selections from 'Words of Wisdom')

The past is dead, the
future is imaginary, the one and only abode of the truly
sacred is the eternal now moment. The recurring cry of
the charlatan and the hoodwinked is "wait and
see."

The fact is that the
future is intrinsically unknown, and it is the nature of
thought to attempt to predict it -- but what does thought
have to work with in its attempt to forecast the coming
years, months, days, hours, or even minutes? The answer
is that thought can only imagine the future from
knowledge, which is information acquired in the past, and
therefore, in the words of the sentencing jurist,
"dead, dead, dead."

Thought, manifesting as
ego, is a survival tool by nature and thus fears its own
extinction. Because the future is inherently unknown, the
thought-full consciousness cannot face that which
contains the very real possiblity of that dreaded
ego-death. It marshals all its resources, comprising
knowledge, and replaces the fearful unknown with the
resulting concocted "future."

Thus does ego imagine
its way into the illusion of psychological security, and
in the process preclude the exclusively in-the-moment
advent of the truly sacred, which theists call
"God." That is also why people like Benjamin
Creme, who encourage future-fixated consciousness aka
"wishful thinking," are, by their actions and
announced intentions, clearly opposed to the living,
actual "God!"

*****

Into meditative silence,
there is an indescribable occurence, a movement that is
nonetheless utter stillness. It is revelation, it is
utterly transformational and not of thought or of the
senses. All we can do is muster all our commitment, our
personal integrity, our sincerity, and invest it in
silent perceptual clarity. The rest is out of human
control, a matter of grace, the mystery of what you call
"Holy Spirit" and I call "the truly
sacred." It is done, but human intention is not the
doer.

*****

Feeling "I am"
is itself a spontaneous occurrence, any accompanying
behavior may therefore also appear to be spontaneous,
that is, without detectable cause or motive.

The action of "I
am" is intrinsic to state and circumstance, it is
choiceless -- a kiss or a kick, at love's behest! The
washing of feet, the overturning of tables -- love, all
of it....

*****

There are times, beloved
companion, that I see violence as a cruel, serrated blade
driven though the heart of our species, century after
century, by the ambitions of (wo)men bereft of love. This
violence is more than war and the shed blood of armed
combatants, it is also in the "non-violent"
politics of "economic" sanctions that starve
and sicken innocents for the transgressions of the
tyrants who rule them, and in the fear of ordinary folk
who never know where or when a terrorist
"martyr" will strike, armed with Torah or Koran
verses assuring the righteousness of the murderous deed.
Bodhisattva can only weep.

*****

"Christ" is an
anglicized variant of a Greek word with the literal
meaning of "anointed." It originated as the
closest koine approximation for the Hebrew term
"moshiach" -- the promised Messiah of Old
Testament prophecy, the "anointed of G-d."

As often happens when
ones modus operandi is experiential rather than formally
philosophical or religious, "The Christ" has
taken on a different meaning and function here. "The
Christ" is really a perceptual mode that encompasses
the collapse of the dualistic paradigm, it is Ruben
Feldman's "unitary perception," J.
Krishnamurti's "great meditation," Saumen
Sengupta's "what is," the in-the-moment
revelation that theistic language diminishes to
"G-d," it is rightful embodiment of the truly
sacred -- it is bodhisattva. It is emphatically not a
particular human being, dead or otherwise, but rather an
"anointing" that is the birthright and original
state of human consciousness.

It is also a symbol
worthy of shattering -- and that shattering is also
"The Christ," in action rather than as static
symbol. So, let us by all means kick the symbolic Christ
off the shelf and sweep up what shards remain -- the
actual, historical Jesus would surely have done the same.
In that shattering moment, let there be the actual
Christ, the great revelational perceptual unity that
renders all symbols and images moot, spent catalysts at
best.

The anointer and the
anointed are surely one, and let no (wo)man put asunder!
Amen.

*****

Ultimately, the only
truly indispensible yoga and "path" is life
itself, which I suppose is karma yoga whether we call it
that or not.

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11Mexico City
Blues
by Jack Kerouac
Selections courtesy of John Metzger and Allspirit

111th Chorus

I didnt attain nothin
When I attained Highest
Perfect
Wisdom
Known in Sanskrit as
Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi

I attained absolutely nothing,
Nothing came over me,
nothing was realizable---

In dropping all false conceptions
of anything at all
I even dropped my conception
of highest old wisdom
And turned to the world,
a Buddha inside,
And said nothing.

People ask me questions
about tomatos robbing the vine
and rotting on the vine
and I had no idea
what I was thinking about

and abided
in blank ecstasy

66th Chorus
Dharma law
Say
All things is made
of the same thing
which is a nothing

All nothings are the same
as somethings
the somethings
are no-nothings,
equally blank

Blank
bright
is the whole scene
when you let your eyes
wander beyond the mules
and the fields and carpets
and bottles on the floor
and clean mahogany radios,
dont be afraid
the raid hasnt started
panic you not
day the better
arriveth soon
And the gist of it Nothing-ness
SUCH-NESS